Sabah Immigration chief raps parents for consigning kids to statelessness due to indifference

KOTA KINABALU, Oct. 21 -- The Immigration Department here has criticised local parents who do not register their children's birth formally, saying this left the minors at risk of being detained as undocumented or stateless later. Sabah Immigration director Datuk Sh Sitti Saleha Habib Yussof said that her department regularly encounters such cases in each raid. "They deserve to have the documents especially because they have a Malaysian mother and are afforded citizenship even though their father may be a foreigner. "It is very unfair for the children to go through this process," said Sitti Saleha, citing a case of...